[Reminder] Are you ready to cry again? (2° Wave of Alpha invites tomorrow, 3 dec.)

[Abriael]

Why does it have to spell that out when most reasonable people would be able to get that from the "may, or may not, meet every requirement on the application" part?

You're making an assumption. It may or may not mean that.

So, they didn't mean to let people without active accounts apply? That just makes them incompetent, not so sure how I feel about that...

Incompetence is a big word. It may very well have happened that when they allowed everyone in the game for the dalamud event that also inadvertantly unlocked alpha application. Mistakes happen, and even competent people make them.

But making that big assumption, how would you have handled it then?

It's not really an assumption. The fact that for the largest part of the application process inactive accounts could not physically apply at all is indeed a fact. Any number of people tried and can easily confirm it.

That's really pretty simple. When you make a mistake the best way to address it is simply a "we made a mistake, sorry about that. It won't happen again".

Owning to a mistake and making amends is normally the simplest and easiest solution.

It really does amaze me how you don't see your responses as over-reacting.

Really? I'm not here insulting people or ripping my hair off. I'm offering some criticism in a rather mild way, mind you. Unless you see any kind of criticism as an overreaction.

I wonder how well it would have worked out for them to annouce that same quote BEFORE first round of acceptance emails went out. How many people would have assumed that they were going to get shafted from the get go? Managing that would have been way easier then addressing the few people after the fact that got bent out fo shape right?

If it was intentional, that should have been announced as soon as the rule was changed. Giving people notice upfront is definitely the less damaging way as opposed to letting them find out by themselves.

Honestly, if you would have gotten an invite in the first round, would you still be championing this cause for all those other people that the company has so greiviously insulted with this?

Now who's exaggerating? No one talked about grevious insults. What SE did is a PR blunder. No one here is feeling insulted. Criticism doesn't imply that.

And yes, this "cause" is simply a matter of principle for me. My criticism comes regardless of me participating into the alpha or not. You're very free to disbelieve it, of course.